three-terraced

Updated: August 1, 2026

It is impossible to give the merest outline of the history of Salisbury without first referring to that of Old Sarum, or Sorbiodunum, two miles to the north. The huge mound on the edge of the Plain was doubtless a prehistoric fortress, though of a much simpler form than the three-terraced enclosure of twenty-seven acres that we see there to-day.

Edric Holmes - Wanderings in Wessex: An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter